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Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has been readmitted to a hospital in Cape Town, his family confirmed today.

But his daughter, Reverend Canon Mpho Tutu, said in a statement his admission into hospital was not related to his cancer treatment

"His oncologist confirms that his PSA level is pleasingly low," the statement released by the Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation said.

His doctors considered it prudent for him to return to hospital for observation.

He'll have a few days of bed-rest while his medical dream team brings the situation under control and determines the next course of action, if any. He will stay in hospital until the weekend, at least.

On the UN Climate Summit, Desmond Tutu has said that we all have a "duty to persuade our leaders to lead us in a new direction"

Desmond Tutu. Credit: Zak Hussein/PA Wire/Press Association Images

As responsible citizens of the world – sisters and brothers of one family, the human family, God's family – we have a duty to persuade our leaders to lead us in a new direction: to help us abandon our collective addiction to fossil fuels, starting this week in New York at the United Nations Climate Summit.

The most devastating effects of climate change – deadly storms, heat waves, droughts, rising food prices and the advent of climate refugees – are being visited on the world's poor.

Those who have no involvement in creating the problem are the most affected, while those with the capacity to arrest the slide dither. Africans, who emit far less carbon than the people of any other continent, will pay the steepest price. It is a deep injustice.

Harry, who was representing the Queen, was joined by senior politicians including the Prime Minister and Labour leader Ed Miliband at a Westminster Abbey service celebrating the life of Mandela, who died on December 5 aged 95-years-old.

Nearly 2,000 people attended the service which featured South African singing and drumming and an address to the congregation by the country's deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe.

The Most Rev Tutu, the former Archbishop of Cape Town, also made a speech and thanked the "splendid" and "amazing" anti-apartheid campaigners for their efforts in changing the "moral climate" over apartheid.

He said: "What would have happened had Mandela died in prison as was the intention and hope of the upholders of apartheid. I suppose most would have regarded him as no better than a terrorist - after all, persons in high positions in Britain and the US did dismiss him as such."

Archbishop Desmond Tutu has been awarded a £1.1 million prize for "affirming life's spiritual dimension".

The 81-year-old landed the 2013 Templeton Prize for his lifelong work in advancing spiritual principles such as love and forgiveness which have helped to liberate people around the world, organisers said.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Credit: Press Assocation

The former Anglican archbishop of Cape Town said: "When you are in a crowd and you stand out from the crowd it's usually because you are being carried on the shoulders of others.

"I want to acknowledge all the wonderful people who accepted me as their leader at home and so to accept this prize in a representative capacity."

The Templeton Prize has been the world's largest annual monetary award given to an individual for the past 40 years.